A mobile van recruiting office has been drumming up applicants for St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina. (Editor/PG)

To help administrators guard against the proliferation of meaningless innovations, the author suggests 10 basic questions that should be asked before plans for any innovative programs progress too far. (Editor)

On the assumption that parents can provide significant educational experiences for their preschool children, a Parent/Child course has been initiated in conjunction with the Toy Library at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development. (Authors/CB)

Fallbrook California Elementary School Administrators have been evolving an administrative support system and guidelines for the effective site administrator with performance criteria. Article introduces one of the six goals that were developed. (Authors/CB)

This performance evaluation program, or staff improvement system, is designed with the premise that it will serve 99 percent of the staff in helping them to improve their competency in order to more effectively help the learner. (Author)

An attempt has been made by the Ocean View School District to develop tools and procedures of evaluation which have as an outcome the personel improvement of the evaluatee. (Author)

This author strongly advocates open faculty discussions of individual teachers' instructional goals and methods. He says that this approach conserve the principal's time, while encouraging more openness and mutual aid among faculty. (Editor)

The issue of standards for professional practice and the problems of deciding by whom and in what manner they are to be developed and enforced are concerns of guidance and counseling. This article presents one perspective on the dilemma, and suggests steps that might lead to its partial resolution. (Author)

The emergence from its first operational phase prompted this discussion of the Unesco-designed Experimental World Literacy Programme. (MB)